#contemporary-anxiety
#contemporary-anxiety

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Introducing Spin Cycle, the Mercury's New Biweekly Album Review Column!

Trigger Object's album uses chaotic electronic soundscapes and algorithmic noise to reflect contemporary global despair and collective emotional exhaustion.

Film

fromThe Atlantic

6 days ago

Cinema's Newest, Grimmest Trend

Multiple 2024 Oscar nominees feature child deaths as central plot points, reflecting contemporary anxieties about imagining futures amid present uncertainty and grief.

fromThe New Yorker

3 months ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

David Trent, a struggling writer whose behavior steers this blackly comic thriller, exults upon learning that his new neighbor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the Pulitzer-winning novelist Silas Hale-"an echo," he initially thinks, of "Henry David Thoreau living in Ralph Waldo Emerson's backyard!" When it becomes clear that Silas has no interest in mentorship, though, David contrives to shore up his writerly status in other, increasingly reprehensible ways.

Books

Film

fromVulture

5 months ago

One Battle After Another Conquers the Critics

One Battle After Another is a critically lauded, contemporary-set Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, praised for capturing 2025's anxious mood.

fromwww.theguardian.com

10 months ago

A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch': the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst's couch

On the first night, sitting alone in the dark with the audience, I thought I might have a heart attack.

Berlin music